To take a brief break from the round-the-world trip report: the convoluted Amazing Race promotion starts today. It seems extremely complicated to earn anything with it, but as any promotion where you MIGHT fly Air Canada or other airlines (assumably,…
A reader asked me: “is RTW (round-the-world) the only Aeroplan reward worth pursuing?” It is almost true that the best value for Aeroplan is round-the-world trips in premium cabins – what better to do than to visit a few continents…
I love it when they do this – they do not force you to choose one promo over the other. So the SPG Aeroplan promo gets you 9,000 points when you stay five nights – on top of the Take Two…
So I plan on taking advantage of this for at least one of my accounts, possibly more. This year’s promo is certainly not as easy as before, especially if you do not have any Sobeys close to you. So here…
Looks like the 2012 promo is back – with a vengeance. While in 2012, most people just pumped gas in $3 increments. A number of strategies came about, such as to buy a gift card and immediately use it to…
In this iteration, we will discuss the arcane exception to “maximum permitted mileage” (MPM) rules that normally prevents you from visiting way far off cities along a route. Generally, your routing between point A and point B must fall within…
Continuing the previous post on the background of a mini-RTW, and the general information about a mini-RTW, let’s look at what rules a mini-RTW must abide by. There must not be any backtracking, with some very specific exceptions. For example,…
In continuing the previous post on Aeroplan mini-RTW information, it’s time to discuss how this whole thing works. It’s a bit of a complex undertaking, and probably won’t quite cover everything (and will be a bit of a difficult read),…
It’s one thing to discuss the current greatest deals and give heads-up on promotions, but it’s entirely another matter to discuss the entire point of all this point hoardage – taking round-the-world trips in business or first class, for pennies…
There are many cool places one can go to – Asia, Africa, Australia, round-the-world… but one of the best redemptions on Aeroplan remains right in our own backyard here in Canada. I’m talking about YFB – Iqaluit. Hardly a place…